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+#   Copyright (c) 2018 PaddlePaddle Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+from __future__ import print_function
+
+import unittest
+
+import paddle.fluid.core as core
+from paddle.fluid.op import Operator
+
+
+class TestFakeInitOpSelectedRows(unittest.TestCase):
+    def check_with_place(self, place, is_selected_rows):
+        scope = core.Scope()
+
+        out_var_name = 'Out'
+        if is_selected_rows:
+            out_tensor = scope.var(out_var_name).get_selected_rows().get_tensor(
+            )
+        else:
+            out_tensor = scope.var(out_var_name).get_tensor()
+
+        var_shape = [4, 784]
+
+        # create and run fake_init_op
+        fake_init_op = Operator("fake_init", Out=out_var_name, shape=var_shape)
+        fake_init_op.run(scope, place)
+
+        self.assertEqual(var_shape, out_tensor._get_dims())
+
+    def test_fake_init_selected_rows(self):
+        places = [core.CPUPlace()]
+        if core.is_compiled_with_cuda():
+            places.append(core.CUDAPlace(0))
+        for place in places:
+            for is_selected_rows in [True, False]:
+                self.check_with_place(place, is_selected_rows)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()